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Horticultural Holiday
Sometimes the busyness of the season gets in the way of enjoying. I love decorating for Christmas, but often find myself puilling everything together at the last minute. For inspiration, I stopped by the Severna Park location of Homestead Gardens, one of my favorite nurseries / garden centers in the region.
Lights, bows, and holiday accessories are [...]
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Tips for a Bay-Friendly Landscape
Cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries has been a long, arduous, and costly task, but there is still more we can do. Historically, irrigation and rain runoff from residential lawns, gardens, and landscapes have contributed to declining health of area waterways and the Bay. But today, some easy eco-friendly landscaping practices ensure that [...]
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Home Decorating Trends
Washington Design Center showroom representatives recently hosted a trunk show featuring the latest from some of the home furnishing industry’s top designers.
Although the idea of selecting home décor according to trends stands somewhat in contrast with creating timeless interiors, when it’s time to buy new furniture or redo the drapes, it might be better to [...] -
Gifts for the Table
New house and garden design books make the perfect holiday gift.
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The Dining Room’s New Look Gallery
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The Dining Room’s New Look
More casual, more multipurpose, more integrated with the rest of the home, and sometimes not even inside, the dining room isn’t what it used to be. No surprise, then, that the matching dining set overseen by grandmother’s antique china press full of wedding dishes doesn’t seem to jibe with the needs of the modern family. [...]
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Creating a Spa-like Home Gym Gallery
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Creating a Spa-like Home Gym
By John Byrd
Sometimes personal satisfaction arrives in a flurry.
“Last winter I was swimming in our new indoor resistance pool, and when I looked up into the woods, it started snowing,” Vienna, Virginia resident Dr. Andy Axelrad recalls. “It was thrilling somehow. I knew I had gotten everything I wanted.”
In warmer weather, the view changes to [...] -
Three Story Kitchen, Office, Family Room Addition Gallery
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Three Story Kitchen, Office, Family Room Addition
When the owners of a home in the Roland Park vicinity of Baltimore decided they needed more family space near the kitchen, the solution seemed simple enough: build an addition. This particular house, however, had a unique challenge. As it is built on a hillside, the first floor is at ground level from the front [...]
